croisaient
\kʁwa.zɛ\
The verdict
“croisaient” is uncommon French (frequency #65,827 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,827
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de croiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-croisaient · croisaient · French
croisaient · rank #65,827 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,827
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH criminologue
Nearest frequency peer: criminologue (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « croisaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- coïncidait
coïncidait
34,178 corpus weight
- criminologue
criminologue
34,175 corpus weight
- croisaient
croisaient
34,174 corpus weight
- croiseront
croiseront
34,173 corpus weight
- Crozet
Crozet
34,172 corpus weight
- cruautés
cruautés
34,171 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « croisaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | croisaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \kʁwa.zɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,827 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « croisaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
croisaient is uncommon French at frequency #65,827 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \kʁwa.zɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de croiser.".
croisaient doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is croisaient, spelled C-R-O-I-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait de croiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how croisaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avant l’assaut, les bâtiments qui croisaient au large se chargeraient de bombarder copieusement la cité. Alors seulement, les troupes franco-espagnoles attaqueraient de front.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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